This document provides an overview of GoAnimate, an online animation tool. It describes GoAnimate's free and paid features like character selection and customization. Benefits include it being free to use, requiring no drawing skills, and allowing embedding and sharing of animations. Limitations are the lack of a downloadable version and limited capabilities in the educator version. Examples of classroom uses include students interviewing characters or recreating stories, and teachers producing lesson introductions or explaining concepts.

1. Go!Animate “Animation by everyone.” Mohammed Nour ISTC541 – Foundations in Instructional Technology Technology Exploratorium April 5, 2011

3. Features & Capabilities

4. Benefits

5. Drawbacks

6. Classroom Use Examples

7. Resources & Links

10. Animations can be customized, including selection of characters, backgrounds, props, sounds and special effects

12. No drawing is required

13. Animations are embeddable and can also be shared via social networking sites

14. Missions/badges are offered to encourage skill building

15. A free educator version is available – GoAnimate 4Schools

17. Some capabilities are pay features including uploading images, downloading animations, and exporting animations to Youtube

18. In the educator version, student capabilities are further limited

19. Each character can only perform one action per scene

21. interview a person of interest

22. re-create a scene from a story

23. design a skit/dialogue

25. Questions ???

27. GoAnimate 4Schools – http://goanimate4schools.com

28. Domo Animate - http://domo.goanimate.com

29. Demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCOCJKGi6xY

30. Sample lesson - http://tccl.rit.albany.edu/knilt/index.php/Unit_I_WHAT_IS_GOANIMATE.COM%3F